If the audience doesn't respond to a laugh line, the writers immediately rework the script to make it work.

如果观众不响应某个笑点，编剧们就会立马改进。

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She hesitates, presses the intercom button and hears the call. A voice on the line announces, “Welcome to Laugh Line!

但是又犹豫不决，最后她按下了内部通讯按钮，听到电话中传来一个声音，“欢迎拨打笑料热线！

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She tried to be funny, but the punch line didn't make any body laugh.

她拼命想说得滑稽，但是她那句逗笑的话却一点没引人发笑。

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The needles felt like tiny, momentary pinpricks, with one exception--in a laugh line just to the side of my nose.

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Nat, his agent, goes so far as to call him "a special, idealistic type, " a line that came close to making me laugh out loud.

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